Course description
The electrical engineering department is dedicated to providing educational opportunities in electrical engineering and computer engineering to a highly selective, predominantly undergraduate, student body of talented men and women. The department is small and emphasizes close interactions between students and the faculty, who are dedicated to education and actively engaged in scholarship that enriches the educational programs. The program emphasizes active learning with a strong laboratory component. The department nurtures the intellectual, professional, and personal development of its students in order to prepare and encourage them to be highly competent professionals and responsible members of society.
Program Educational Objectives
The PEOs of the Electrical Engineering Department at Bucknell University are broad statements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that our program is preparing graduates to achieve.
* Graduates will experience success in electrical engineering areas or other diverse fields that require analytical and/or professional skills.
* Graduates will contribute to their fields or professions.
* Graduates will pursue professional development, including continuing or advanced education, relevant to their career path.The electrical engineering department is dedicated to providing educational opportunities in electrical engineering and computer engineering to a highly selective, predominantly undergraduate, student body of talented men and women. The department is small and emphasizes close interactions between students and the faculty, who are dedicated to education and actively engaged in scholarship that enriches the educational programs. The program emphasizes active learning with a strong laboratory component. The department nurtures the intellectual, professional, and personal development of its students in order to prepare and encourage them to be highly competent professionals and responsible members of society.
Program Educational Objectives
The program educational objectives of the Electrical Engineering Department at Bucknell University are broad statements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that our program is preparing graduates to achieve.
1. Graduates will experience success in electrical engineering areas or other diverse fields that require analytical and/or professional skills.
2. Graduates will contribute to their fields or professions.
3. Graduates will pursue professional development, including continuing or advanced education, relevant to their career paths.
The requirements are:
First Year
First Semester: ENGR 100; MATH 201; PHYS 211; Elective
Second Semester: ELEC 120; MATH 202; PHYS 212; Elective
Sophomore Year
First Semester: CHEM 201; ELEC 225*; CSCI 203; MATH 211; Elective
Second Semester: ELEC 226*; ELEC 247; ENGR 220; MATH 212; Elective (Science)
Junior Year
First Semester: ELEC 320; ELEC 350; ENGR 240; Elective
Second Semester: ELEC 340; ELEC 351; ELEC 390; ENGR 138*; Elective
Senior Year
First Semester: ELEC 480; ELEC 491; ELEC 400*; ELEC 471; One elective
Second Semester: ELEC 420; Three electives
The 10 elective courses shown above are distributed as follows:
* Five approved social science and humanities courses to meet the engineering General Education Component requirement. Those courses will be distributed as follows:
1. A minimum of two courses in humanities; one must be an English course taken in the first year.
2. A minimum of two courses in the social sciences.
3. One of the courses must satisfy the global and societal perspectives requirement.
* One course at the 200 level or above in the natural sciences (physics and astronomy, chemistry, biology) or BIOL 121, BIOL 122, GEOL 103, GEOL 150.
* At least one 400-level course in electrical engineering.
* Three unrestricted elective courses in any department or program of the University. It is recommended that students intending to attend graduate school also should choose at least one of these courses: MATH 343, MATH 345, or MATH 362.
*Half-credit course; all others are one-credit courses.
Three courses in each student’s program must fulfill the University writing requirement, which includes a W1 course taken in the first year and two subsequent W2 courses..
Electrical engineering students who wish to pursue graduate studies in bioengineering or who wish to acquire the biology and chemistry needed in preparation for work or further study in the life sciences are encouraged to take a minor in chemical and biological studies. These students will be excused from the ENGR 240 requirement.
